Undeadly vs Undead - What's the difference?
undeadly | undead |
Not subject to death; immortal.
*1846 , Miles Coverdale, Remains of Myles Coverdale :
*1852 , Alfred (King of England), The whole works of King Alfred the Great :
*1957 , Ray C. Petry, Late Medieval Mysticism :
*1979 , Frieda Elaine Penninger, William Caxton :
*2001 , Lynn Kurland, Stardust of Yesterday :
Unable to be killed, quenched, or terminated; eternal; everlasting.
*1993 , William Kaplan, Donald Malcolm McRae, Maxwell Cohen, Law, Policy and International Justice :
Of or pertaining to the undead.
Immortally; eternally.
*2009 , Colleen Gleason, As Shadows Fade :
*2009 , Dakota Cassidy, The Accidental Human :
Not deadly; not causing, producing, or resulting in death; harmless.
*1886 , Homer, Homer's Iliad :
*2002 , John Graves, Goodbye to a River: A Narrative :
*2004 , Troy Blacklaws, Karoo boy :
*2012 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day :
Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
(horror fiction) Being animate, though non-living.
Those creatures which are dead yet still moving.
* 1997 , Carol Margaret Davison, Paul Simpson-Housley, Bram Stoker's Dracula: sucking through the century, 1897-1997
As adjectives the difference between undeadly and undead
is that undeadly is not subject to death; immortal while undead is pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.As an adverb undeadly
is immortally; eternally.As a noun undead is
those creatures which are dead yet still moving.undeadly
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) undeedlii, vndeedly, undedlich, from (etyl) .Adjective
(-)- "The soul also hath her death, namely, when it lacketh and is destitute of the eternal and godly life, which truly and justly is called the life of the soul: but undeadly or immortal is it called, because it never ceaseth to live, how miserable soever the life of it be. [...]"
- He aye was and aye shall be, undeadly and everlasting.
- And also a soul in this state is dwelling between the terms of deadly life and undeadly life.
- But I believe that the undeadly gods have spread and sown the souls within the bodies of mankind to the intent that the men should see and inhabit the countries, [...]
- Tempting as it was to hang up on the man and be done with it, that wouldn't do. Who knew what sort of undeadly minions de Piaget was capable of commanding.
- Much of his subsequent work related to processes for resolving what he once called "undeadly quarrels" in the international arena.
Derived terms
* undeadlinessAdverb
(en adverb)- [...] and it had been Sebastian's fault that her husband was no longer living undeadly by her side.
- Today, almost eight months since they'd met, and sharing her house for four of those months now, Wanda was more in love with Heath than she ever thought was humanly, er, undeadly possible.
Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(-)- Ulysses, knowing well The wound undeadly (setting back his foot to form his stand) Thus spake to Socus: "O thou wretch, thy death is in this hand, That stay'st my victory on Troy, and where thy charge was made In doubtful term [...]"
- [...] among boulders with my weapons deadly and undeadly .
- She does not care if it is a tobaccoroller or molesnake or any undeadly animal.
- [...] each surrounded by a luminous contour, and hang an instant in space, as time slowed and each permutation of shapes appeared, to begin their gentle, undeadly descent, [...]
undead
English
Adjective
(-)Noun
(wikipedia undead) (en-noun)- In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some nubile skinny-dipping teenagers.
- Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads , an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.